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Essay Contest @ Tiny Texas Houses

Ok, y’all. Firstly, let me introduce you all to my new Tiny House Superhero, Brad Kittel. This man has founded a Tiny Texas Houses, a company with the goal of building pure-salvage tiny homes. As Kittel states on his website,

“I believe that there are presently enough building materials sitting on the ground to build much of the next generation of housing. All it takes to make it so is pure human energy, spirit, and the desire to build something that will last for several lifetimes.” -Brad Kittel.

If you aren’t yet convinced of his amazing powers to revolutionize the tiny-house movement, then please check out and PARTICIPATE in the Tiny Texas Houses ESSAY CONTEST (Deadline: September 3rd, 2011) where you have the chance to win the Tiny Texas Worker House (pictured above). This house is valued at about $40,000 dollars.

Okay okay, yes, there is a $50 dollar fee to participate in the contest. But here is the thing: you get an e-book and a plan for building a house like the Worker house. That is a pretty cool deal. I mean, I bought the Small House Book by Jay Shafer for $40 bucks and his house plans cost hundreds of dollars and he doesn’t have any houses he is giving away with the book! Also, Brad Kittel isn’t just about tiny houses, he is also about salvage. Pure Salvage. Don’t you wanna learn more about salvage? I don’t know, I personally think $50 isn’t a bad investment when you consider the general cost of tiny-house-related publications.

Apparently Mr. Kittel has been having trouble getting enough people to enter his contest, which is a shame. Perhaps I should ask him more in-depth about his e-book instead of just hypothesizing about its content and worth compared to other books about tiny houses.

But please enter the contest. You may find it inspiring! In fact, it inspired me to finally start this blog that I had been putting off for years.

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4 thoughts on “Essay Contest @ Tiny Texas Houses”

Great commentary. Thank you for supporting the idea of Pure Salvage Living, a way of building the future out of the natural resources we have already harvested in the past. Good luck with your blog. I still need to get mine going too.
brad

Thank you very much for the support. The ebook will have some plans in it, as well as guidance on salvaging, the most critical part of the process. We are shooting video and stills of the tear down we are on right now and hope to show the process from start to finish, from tear down to creating the new house as part of the ebook.
The other things I will try to cover is simplifying the building process to modules that nearly anyone can learn.
Thanks for the support. Incidentally we have dropped the number of essays to complete the contest to 750 from 1,000. I will not spend money on advertising to see if we can reduce the entrants needed to give it away. If short, we will poll the entrants and offer a refund or extend the contest to allow more to enter.
Thanks again for the support.